Festival Eritrea – held annually in the first week of August in Asmara (and at times in some major Eritrean cities) – generally offers a wide spectrum of exhibitions. In this sense, the diversity of the programmes is conducive for accommodating both young and older generations while the traditional dishes and beverages on offer add flavour to the whole setting.

Hamelmalo Agricultural College has been in a week of festivity. It is quite impressive to see that the college celebrated 10th anniversary of its establishment along with the inauguration of a newly built research laboratory. Established in 2005, the college has held its 8th commencement on 19 July 2015.

Eritrea's Ministry of Agriculture has been shouldering a responsibility to implement strategic plans of the Government which mainly gives emphasis on food security, improvement of living standards, environmental protection, protection and preservation of natural resources and other targets aimed at alleviating challenges of traditional farming practices through the introduction of modern techniques and other interventions.

Sawa is an educational hub that is often misrepresented as solely a military training area. However, in addition to the Warsai Yekealo school, where students from all over Eritrea converge for their final year of high-school, Sawa also houses a vocational training center that is divided into seven departments, which include building construction, accounting, advanced machinery, wood and metal works, etc. This year, Sawa will be graduating its 28th round of 12th grade students as well as the 7th batch of those that have completed their studies at the vocational training center.

According to the 2006 development report of the UN, the minimum threshold per person for a day is about 20 litters. yet about 1.1 billion people, basically from the developing world use only 5 liters per person a day “ an amount used to flush toilets in rich countries” to borrow a phrase from that report, while people in Europe use more than 200 liters and in the United states 400 liters daily.

It is needless to mention that any given society has its own culture- a culture which glows with its own light. Culture, being a unique possession of communities and societies at large, needs not be placed under a different light rather than that of its own. That is why any culture needs to be preserved in a way that maintains its originality. Thus, it is a prerequisite for any nation to have a law that governs how any cultural asset and generally all sorts of heritages should be dealt with and how their very existence should be secured.

The people and Government of Eritrea welcome the Organization of African Trade Union Unity and all delegates to the 38th session of its General Council and the International Trade Union Symposium. It is and honour for us to host these important forums. The rights and dignity of workers and all working people in the current realities in Africa and globally as well as the role of trade unions and of international solidarity are issues of paramount importance.